Hiss yucky weather, yay good music
I've enjoyed listening to my music while walking to classes. I made a playlist for rainy weather and it makes the day more thoughtful.
I'm still mad from yesterday. Not as mad as I was, but still mad. You can't please everyone I guess. That's not our purpose anyway.
I've always gotten really annoyed by people that claim Christ and then look down their nose at everybody else. No one could possibly be as devoted, good, perfect as they are. And people that have differing opinions on somethings are going to hell or aren't real Christians.
In the Battalion today, there was a letter mailed in from a person who was homosexual and trying to post up signs on the walls for a support group for homosexuals. "Texas A&M is the friendliest campus in the world unless you're different." is what she said. I can't think of any place in the Bible where it says that it's a Christians job to judge people and to tell them they're going to hell and to shun them because they are different. Christ didn't shun anyone. There were plenty of people who just flat out wouldn't listen to Him; that was their perogative. I guess it still is.
By the same token, I'm so tired of people painting Christianity and Christians with the same brush. Sometimes it's like the same narrow mindedness that people will accuse Christians of is actually applied to them. Since when is being convicted narrow minded? Just because a person has a specific stance on something and isn't budging doesn't make them narrow minded. Refusing to hear other people's opinions is narrow minded. That's what I think. But no, me believing that homosexuality is wrong, that having sex before marriage with or without birthcontrol is wrong, that it's a good thing we have a Christian president (I find comfort that a powerful man is willing to go to a Source more powerful than himself for guidance), and telling people that they need a Savior makes me some kind of radical, narrow minded, cousin marryin', Bible thumpin' bigot who thinks the world is going to hell because some people don't agree with me. It's not my job to even think about where someone is going, and it's certainly not my job to condemn anybody.
I'm not perfect. I know that. I'll be the first one to admit it. There have been many times when I've wanted to shake people for what they've said, and I've been working on not getting so upset. Sure, people will make it personal, but like I said, that's their perogative. I've been trying to learn to just shrug it off, but it's difficult sometimes. But this way is better than just wasting energy being hacked off at someone.
Medgar Evers said that "When you hate, the only person you hurt is yourself. Because when you hate, half the people you hate don't know about it, and the others don't care."
So my answer....just keep doing what I've been doing. I like talking about my faith in here. Maybe it'll help someone else out. I like talking about touchy issues. I enjoy the discussion, even if others view points differ from mine or might rub me the wrong way. Telling people they need Christ...well, now that's what we're comissioned to do. Not to throw it in their face, not to pound them into the ground, just to tell them about Someone that hasn't let me down and who is probably more patient with me than anyone on earth. Why would someone not want that? What's so horrible about believing in a Higher Power than yourself? With thinking perhaps you're a part of a bigger picture? That Someone has a plan and purpose for your life? That maybe, you DON'T have control over everything? Sounds good to me. So what's wrong with sharing that?
To me...not one thing.
I hope everyone is having a good day. Because it is, after all, a Beautiful Day.
I'm still mad from yesterday. Not as mad as I was, but still mad. You can't please everyone I guess. That's not our purpose anyway.
I've always gotten really annoyed by people that claim Christ and then look down their nose at everybody else. No one could possibly be as devoted, good, perfect as they are. And people that have differing opinions on somethings are going to hell or aren't real Christians.
In the Battalion today, there was a letter mailed in from a person who was homosexual and trying to post up signs on the walls for a support group for homosexuals. "Texas A&M is the friendliest campus in the world unless you're different." is what she said. I can't think of any place in the Bible where it says that it's a Christians job to judge people and to tell them they're going to hell and to shun them because they are different. Christ didn't shun anyone. There were plenty of people who just flat out wouldn't listen to Him; that was their perogative. I guess it still is.
By the same token, I'm so tired of people painting Christianity and Christians with the same brush. Sometimes it's like the same narrow mindedness that people will accuse Christians of is actually applied to them. Since when is being convicted narrow minded? Just because a person has a specific stance on something and isn't budging doesn't make them narrow minded. Refusing to hear other people's opinions is narrow minded. That's what I think. But no, me believing that homosexuality is wrong, that having sex before marriage with or without birthcontrol is wrong, that it's a good thing we have a Christian president (I find comfort that a powerful man is willing to go to a Source more powerful than himself for guidance), and telling people that they need a Savior makes me some kind of radical, narrow minded, cousin marryin', Bible thumpin' bigot who thinks the world is going to hell because some people don't agree with me. It's not my job to even think about where someone is going, and it's certainly not my job to condemn anybody.
I'm not perfect. I know that. I'll be the first one to admit it. There have been many times when I've wanted to shake people for what they've said, and I've been working on not getting so upset. Sure, people will make it personal, but like I said, that's their perogative. I've been trying to learn to just shrug it off, but it's difficult sometimes. But this way is better than just wasting energy being hacked off at someone.
Medgar Evers said that "When you hate, the only person you hurt is yourself. Because when you hate, half the people you hate don't know about it, and the others don't care."
So my answer....just keep doing what I've been doing. I like talking about my faith in here. Maybe it'll help someone else out. I like talking about touchy issues. I enjoy the discussion, even if others view points differ from mine or might rub me the wrong way. Telling people they need Christ...well, now that's what we're comissioned to do. Not to throw it in their face, not to pound them into the ground, just to tell them about Someone that hasn't let me down and who is probably more patient with me than anyone on earth. Why would someone not want that? What's so horrible about believing in a Higher Power than yourself? With thinking perhaps you're a part of a bigger picture? That Someone has a plan and purpose for your life? That maybe, you DON'T have control over everything? Sounds good to me. So what's wrong with sharing that?
To me...not one thing.
I hope everyone is having a good day. Because it is, after all, a Beautiful Day.